Quarterly Product Update: Better Traces, CONCURRENCY, and RATE
At Honeycomb Developer Week, I got an opportunity to walk through a couple of fun new features we’ve shipped since August and ways that we’ve...
BeginSpan is the New Printf: Observability in the Developer Workflow
Observability is a great way to understand how your system is operating in production, diagnose errors when systems fail, and find subtle gaps in logic....
Show Your Query You Love It By Naming It
Honeycomb is all about collaboration: We believe that observability is a team sport, and we want to give you as many tools to help your...
Handle Unruly Outliers with Log Scale Heatmaps
We often say that Honeycomb helps you find a needle in your haystack. But how exactly is that done? This post walks you through when...
Challenges with Implementing SLOs
A few months ago, Honeycomb released our SLO — Service Level Objective — feature to the world. We’ve written before about how to use it...
They Aren’t Pillars, They’re Lenses
To have Observability is to have the ability to understand your system’s internal state based on signals and externally-visible output. Honeycomb’s approach to Observability is...
Honeycomb SLO Now Generally Available: Success, Defined.
Honeycomb now offers SLOs, aka Service Level Objectives. This is the second in a set of of essays on creating SLOs from first principles. Previously,...
Working Toward Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Part 1
In theory, Honeycomb is always up. Our servers run without hiccups, our user interface loads rapidly and is highly responsive, and our query engine is...
Investigating Timeouts With Tracing Using Sentry
Tracing is one of the key tools that Honeycomb offers to make sense of data. Over the last few weeks, we've made a number of...
BubbleUp Meets Tracing (and Other Odd-shaped Data)
A few weeks ago, BubbleUp came out of Beta. We've been getting fantastic user feedback on how BubbleUp helps users speed through the Core Analysis...
Diving into Data with Honeycomb: BubbleUp (formerly codename: Drilldown) is in Beta!
This blog miniseries talks about how to think about doing data analysis the Honeycomb way. In this episode, we announce an exciting new feature, currently...
The Core Analysis Loop, or: Heatmaps Make Analysis Better
In this blog miniseries, I'm talking about how to think about doing data analysis, the Honeycomb way. In Part I, I talked about how heatmaps...
Heatmaps Make Ops Better
In this blog miniseries, I'd like to talk about how to think about doing data analysis "the Honeycomb way." Welcome to part 1, where I...